DGAP-News: Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd.: CFCL's BlueGen sale to Alliander
(firmenpresse) - Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd. / Product Launch
17.02.2010 09:11
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Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited [AIM/ASX: CFU], a leading developer of high
efficiency and low emission electricity generation units for homes and
other buildings, has sold a BlueGen power and heating unit to European
utility Alliander.
Alliander supplies gas and electricity to 2.9 million customers in The
Netherlands and Germany, including to the local Heinsberg area, where
Ceramic Fuel Cells has opened a volume fuel cell stack manufacturing plant.
From Q2 2010 Alliander will operate a BlueGen unit in one of its buildings
in the Industriepark Oberbruch in Heinsberg, to evaluate the technology for
further deployment and to demonstrate the product to customers and
potential partners in the Heinsberg region. Alliander is evaluating the
BlueGen product as part of its vision to create a smart grid network in the
local region.
About the size of a dishwasher, each BlueGen unit can produce twice the
electricity needed to power an average home, with the surplus electricity
sold back to the grid. BlueGen also produces heat, to make enough hot
water for an average home. BlueGen units can generate electricity more
efficiently than the current European power grid, significantly reducing a
home's carbon emissions and cutting energy bills.
Ceramic Fuel Cells has achieved electrical efficiency of 60 percent, far
higher than any other technology in the rapidly expanding market for small
scale power and heating generators. When heat is recovered from the
electricity production process, total efficiency is up to 85 percent -
twice as efficient as the average among current European power stations.
By generating power close to where it is used, Ceramic Fuel Cells' products
can meet the future demand for electricity without the need for huge
investments in electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure.
The order from Alliander follows recent BlueGen orders from other leading
European utilities E.ON Ruhrgas, RheinEnergie, EWE and Gasterra, as well as
customers in Australia and Japan. Ceramic Fuel Cells has also deployed
fully integrated power and heating products with leading energy companies
E.ON UK in the United Kingdom and GdF Suez in France.
About Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited
Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited is a world leader in developing fuel cell
technology to provide highly efficient and low-emission electricity from
widely available natural gas. The Company is developing micro combined heat
and power and distributed generation units that generate electricity and
heat for homes and other buildings. Ceramic Fuel Cells is developing
products with leading appliance partners and utility customers in Germany,
France, the United Kingdom and Japan. In 2009 the company launched its
BlueGen gas-to-electricity product.
Ceramic Fuel Cells is headquartered in Melbourne, and has operations in the
UK and Germany. In October 2009 the Company opened its fuel cell stack
manufacturing plant in the Industriepark Oberbruch in the North
Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. The Company is listed on the London
Stock Exchange AIM market and the Australian Securities Exchange (code
CFU). www.cfcl.com.au
About Alliander
With 6,000 staff and 2.9 million customers, Alliander manages gas and
electricity distribution in large areas of The Netherlands. In Germany,
Alliander also operates municipal energy networks, public lighting and
traffic signals in Berlin, Cottbus, Hagen, Heinsberg and Russelsheim.
www.alliander.de
PR Partner GmbH, Matthias Baumgarten, Tel.: +49-89-383985-16, Ohmstrase 8,
D-80802 Munich, mbaumgarten(at)prpartner.de
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